I've done something I think I've hardly ever done: an art collab! It was =Delta141 's idea, both the collab idea and what the drawing should be about. I just did the line art and he colored it, and I must say - he did an amazing job! I just love how the coloring looks!

The character on the left is his character, Ryder, whom I think some of you are familiar with He's comforting Spike here, being kind to him and telling him everything will be alright. In this drawing though, Ryder doesn't know exactly what Spike's going through. Had he known, I bet Charles would be in biiiiig trouble...

I saw this on the front page. I'm not really into this sort of thing, but I had to make a comment because you've managed to convey a lot of emotion in a drawing with relatively few lines. Amazing job!!

Uhm... I'm going to assume that you haven't actually read oomizuao's novel. If you had, then you would probably realize how seriously offensive and fucked up your comment is.

That kid there that Ryder is showing some affection to is Spike Shaffer. In the story, Spike is actually a victim of constant abuse and emotional trauma. His uncle is a pedophile who beats and rapes him on a constant basis, and he has been constantly abused like this ever since he was only five years old. This constant abuse traumatizes and messes with Spikes head so much to the point that he doesn't consider himself to be worth any value to the world, and at one point in the story he even attempts suicide. Because of all the shit he has to deal with on a constant basis, he never really has any permanent place that he can call home, and the only place where he does feel safe and loved in the story isn't even a place where he feels he can be open about what is happening to him because of the fear that his uncle might torture him even further for it and out of greater fear that his uncle might kill whoever he tells.

I can understand that you may have thought it was just an innocent joke, and really I do know how funny it can be to laugh at a picture like this and jokingly pretend that the person giving the kid some affection has some other intentions with him. But jokes like that are kinda fucked up when the people you are joking about are actual rape victims. But again, I'm assuming that you haven't actually read the story, so I know that you never really could have known. I'm just giving you a heads up. He's a friggn' rape victim. Sooooo... Unless you wanna be an ass, don't joke around like that around here. Mkay? <